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Walmart Doubles Spending for Truckers

As Walmart continues to lose drivers in an already tight market, the company plans on doubling its spending to attract and retain truckers.

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Believe You Can: Positive Attitude Reflects on Business Growth

Industry leaders don’t become industry leaders by sticking to what they have always been doing. No matter what, you have to take risks and come up with new ideas and ways of doing things to be competitive.

Mark Murrell

Chipotle to Retrain Workers on Food Safety

After over 700 people were sickened by a single Chipotle location, the restaurant chain will be retraining employees on food safety measures.

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Face of Truckers Looks to Change

As the driver shortage continues, recruiters must start representing what people want to see: those who look like them.

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Agriculture Industry Faces Labor Shortage

Farm wages are rising as the industry faces a shortage in labor.

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Supply Chain Education

High School Takes on Commercial Truck Driver Shortage

With commercial truck driver shortage looming, a high school in Patterson, California takes a proactive approach by creating a truck driving school program dedicated to bringing new drivers into the industry.

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Truckers Wages on the Move

American Trucking Associations (ATA)

American Trucking Associations reported that more than 100,000 employees and contractors showed the salary of a U.S. truckload driver increased 15 percent.

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Top 3 Food Safety Training Challenges

Intertek Alchemy

A new global food safety training survey report highlights areas for improvement and best practices.

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Training/Onboarding

A Hidden Source of Temporary Warehousing & Logistics Staffing: Your Facility Service Provider

Below are four benefits to sourcing temporary staff from your facility services vendor.

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Trump’s Pledge to Infrastructure Remains Uncertain

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Judge Issues Temporary Injunction Halting Overtime Rule

U.S. Department of Labor

Federal judge Amos Mazzant agreed with plaintiffs calling for an emergency injunction, saying the U.S. Department of Labor may have overstepped its authority in establishing new salary-level tests and an automatic increases every three years.

Attorney Janet Grumer, a partner and employment law specialist in law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, said the temporary injunction would likely be in place until the case is decided, and no decision is expected before the end of the year.

Risk/Compliance

U.S. Labor Department Mandates Higher Overtime Pay, Unsettling Employers

U.S. Department of Labor

Currently, salaried employees who earn more than $23,660 a year and meet other criteria are not entitled by law to overtime pay, which is 1.5 times an equivalent hourly wage after an employee works more than 40 hours a week.

The threshold is scheduled to roughly double, to $47,476, on Dec. 1. That means millions of workers who were salaried will have to have their hours tracked to see if they qualify for overtime pay.

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